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Year 4 | Grammar Made Exciting | Ready-to-Teach Resource

Looking for a grammar lesson that finally makes subordinate clauses click? This interactive, imaginative lesson is designed to help children spot, use, and write subordinate clauses with confidence all while having fun!

A complete, structured lesson on subordinate clauses, aligned with the Year 4 National Curriculum

Clear explanations with child-friendly examples

Interactive sorting activity: Main clause or subordinate clause?

Creative writing challenge using fronted adverbials and subordinating conjunctions

Learning Outcomes:

Children will identify subordinate clauses in sentences

Use a range of conjunctions (e.g. although, because, if, when)

Write multi-clause sentences that show greater depth and variety

Understand how subordinate clauses add detail, explanation or cause

Why it works:

Fully scaffolded to support all abilities, with clear success criteria

Encourages discussion, creativity, and deeper grammatical thinking

Easily adaptable for writing across the curriculum (especially English and History topics!)

Great for formative assessment and evidence of progression.

Teacher Tip: This lesson helped my pupils move from writing simple sentences to much more exciting, varied writing and they genuinely enjoyed experimenting with their own clauses!

Grab this resource and help your class become masters of the clause subordinate or not!
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